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UNLV grad overcomes acute adversity, highlights winter commencement

On Tuesday evening, a sea of red graduation gowns flooded the Thomas & Mack Center for UNLV’s the 55th Winter Commencement.

Families and friends sat above the graduates, weighed down with flowers, gifts and leis ready to cheer on their loved ones who waited eagerly for their names to be called and the degree they worked so diligently for to be handed to them.